The Cathode Rain
2011
The Cathode Rain's nine cloudbursts
Bring the Fear On: The album opener, it's a caressing anti-personnel manifesto carried by a tense jangly riff; Power Failure: the lead single is a slip sliding melodic power anthem. Imagine a glider with a turbo boost button; Hypnotise: the penultimate track and the albums climax is an embracing, flurrying anthem. If this song was made solid it would be a snow globe; Fix A Gun: the perfect closing track, this is a daybreak croon propelled by an ambient rhythm trickling down like a digital rain; Radars & Crossed Wires: a fierce pop noir thrash, vocals slipping between sweet smiles and sneering snarls; Illusion: a mid-breakup lullaby, with a dawn melancholy and melody mostly carried by piano; Electric Wave: the crypto title track is scrap yard metallic pop noire, with a gothic punch, followed up by a lush oceanic kiss-in-the-tail with classic rock style guitar soloing. And it's whole lot less messy than that sounds; Take Another Hit: a skating thrash a
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